Von KI und Entlassungen verängstigt, sehen Angestellte, wie ihnen ihre Sicherheit entgeht | Büroangestellte klammern sich lebensgefährlich an ihren Job
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An easy failure mode for capitalism is rewarding those who intentionally cause chaos. For the 1%, this headline is *normative*.
AI is the China Manufacturing for White Collars.
Dear COBOL programmers, watch as the pattern repeats itself in realtime.
When everyone is unemployed because of AI what work is the ai going to do?
It’s like when a major company leaves the town/city that built up around it. What’s going to power the economy? People won’t be working and they won’t be spending and slowly all that money just stops moving
Another day, another article that invokes AI as the cause for layoffs with zero evidence that any actual work is being replaced by the tools as they currently exist.
My company is seeing layoffs for the first time since I started here 10 years ago, but nothing to do with AI, it’s because of government funding cuts to NIH grants.
Researchers are going overseas where they can, and us support staff are tightening our belts and hoping funding starts getting restored in 2027 or 29.
Shit rolls down hill because us canceling projects means we’re not spending that money with Dell or Nikon or Siemens or whoever.
It’s fun that we’re all being forced to pay tariffs because some fields like manufacturing and steel working are deemed worthy of being protected, but every other industry is being told to go kick rocks by the government.
Don’t worry, Trump says we can all just re skill overnight and become blue collar workers. Supposedly those jobs require zero expertise. /s
Who’s going to buy the goods and services all that ai is going to help produce and with what if everyone’s unemployed?
Not really AI, it’s the recession that this country is in and has been in. The powers that be are doing everything they can to avoid admitting this, but the reality is for regular working Joes, this country’s economy and employment situation is grim.
Yeah I never knew an office worker that felt secure. I’m laughing just typing that out.
Managers are abusing this as well.
Ai ain’t doing shit trump’s economy is designed to put everyone out of work. Fuck talking about ai its all bullshit to cover the truth
I feel for new grads, these days. And what’s motivating those still in school to keep going? It’s a bleak outlook for the average worker and moneybags city for the business oligarchs.
Best bet is to seriously consider the trades and other jobs not easily replaceable by AI or impossible to be replaced in our current timeline.
It’s really not AI. AI is making people maybe 10% more productive in average in the companies I’ve seen.
All the layoffs I’ve seen in the last few months have been:
1. Cutting costs to benefit shareholders and offset tariffs
2. Offshoring high paying jobs to teams in eastern Asia and India
I finally pulled the trigger to change jobs and I am really, really hoping that I didn’t make a monumental fuck-up in doing so, especially as a remote worker in a small town.
Wish me luck, guys.
There’s currently a feedback loop that will essentially be a self fulfilling prophecy. Workers fear layoffs so they spend less and because they spend less business goes down and thus layoffs materialize.